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... disparate
I was born in a emmigrant family - as is everyone
in what is now known as America.
There is a good reason why I like Ben Franklin...
and other models.
We will use many models and working examples in
our Project.
. . . but Ben? He's just great!
. . . Not perfect - - - just GREAT !
"Like most citizens of his time Benjamin Franklin owned
slaves and viewed them as inferior to white Europeans, as it was
believed they could not be educated. His newspaper the Pennsylvania
Gazette advertised the sale of slaves and frequently published
notices of runaways. However, he also published antislavery ads
from Quakers.
After 1758 Franklin gradually changed his mind when his friend
Samuel Johnson brought him to one of Dr. Bray’s schools
for black children. Dr. Bray Associates was a philanthropic association
affiliated to the Church of England. In 1759 he joined the association
by donating money.
Abolition Society
In 1759 he met Anthony Benezet who started a school in Philadelphia
and who later co-founded the Abolition Society. In 1763 Franklin
wrote that African shortcomings and ignorance were not inherently
natural but come from lack of education, slavery and negative
environments. He also wrote that he saw no difference in learning
between African and white children.
http://www.benjamin-franklin-history.org/slavery-abolition-society/
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In 1787 Franklin became the President of the Philadelphia Society
for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage, often
referred as the Abolition Society. The Society was formed by
a group of abolitionist Quakers and Anthony Benezet in 1774.
The Abolition Society was the first in America and served as
inspiration for the formation of abolitionist societies in other
colonies. The group focused not only in abolishing slavery but
also in education, moral instruction and employment."
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You can choose
your Road. . .
to imagine, inspire and achieve
or
you can despise - even hate. .
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people you are not smart enough to know.
small letters for small ideas
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disparate
- .......Notice the word disparate?
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dis·pa·rate 'disp?r?t,d?'sper?t/Submit
adjective
1. essentially different in kind; not allowing comparison. "they
inhabit disparate worlds of thought" synonyms: contrasting, different,
differing, dissimilar, unalike, poles apart; More nounarchaic
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Everyone - Anyone is invited
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... to participate - to work
with us.
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. . . . . . . . White, Orange,
Chocolate - and CHILDREN !
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Yet the idea is to integrate
these disparate types,
so they understand , cooperate, and help each other -
rather than disparage or fight each other.
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A lot of people don't
think about it, but there was/is another group that was/is even
more oppressed than Blacks/Negroes/African-Americans. - - - oops.
There are a number of people who do not believe we should use
titles African-Americans, Native-Americans . . . and what did
my guy think and that group ?
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I love that guy . . .
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Remarks Concerning the Savages of North
America.
(1784). by Benjamin Franklin about Native Americans
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Savages we call them, because their manners differ from
ours, which we think the perfection of civility; they think
the same of theirs.
Perhaps, if we could examine the manners of different
nations with impartiality, we should find no people so rude, as
to be without any rules of politeness; nor any so polite, as not
to have some remains of rudeness.
The Indian men, when young, are hunters
and warriors, when old, counselors; for all their government is
by counsel of the sages; there is no force, there are no prisons,
no officers to compel obedience, or inflict punishment. Hence
they generally study oratory, the best speaker having the most
influence. The Indian women till the ground, dress the food, nurse
and bring up the children, and preserve and hand down to posterity
the memory of public transactions. These employments of men and
women are accounted natural and honorable. Having few artificial
wants, they have abundance of leisure for improvement by conversation.
Our laborious manner of life, compared with theirs, they esteem
slavish and base; and the learning, on which we value ourselves,
they regard as frivolous and useless. An instance of this occurred
at the Treaty of Lancaster, in Pennsylvania, anno 1744, between
the government of Virginia and the Six Nations (1. A confederation
of Iroquois tribes: Seneca, Cayuga, Oneida, Onondaga, Mohawk,
and Tuscarora.)
http://dangerousintersection.org/2006/04/30/benjamin-franklins-essay-about-native-americans/
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There is a lot of philosophy,
fact, and opinion bundled within this project, but let's move
on to the actions -> HELP
WANTED
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We now find ourselves in a very odd sort
of war. One side calls it a War on Terrorism, the other side says
it is a war against Imperialists, invaders, Crusaders - to purify
and convert to the One True Religion. Wow. Haven't we heard that
song before? |
It is, in fact, a war of ideas and ideals.
And there lies a new urgency.
C-City is designed to argue for and demonstrate peace and cooperation
among disparate religions and ideologies. |
Paris is a beautiful city, but
it faces the same concerns with immigrants that many do in the
USA.
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Imagine
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Paris has some wonderful cafes
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the
Children's Cafe
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Imagine
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As our Participants
build their home, they also build their business - a Children's
cafe.
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Under Construction
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Tune in soon
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Obviously,
this is not the full story --- we are at the point of developing
how to describe our purpose, goals, and methods -
What we have now are a few differnt web sites with different versions.
Please send an Email to talk@C-City.org
and give us your thoughts. |
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